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A mixture of buttermilk and boiling whey; curds. [prov. Eng.] Wright.

To flutter; to flap the wings without flying. And flickering on her nest made short essays to sing. Dryden.

w open; to open suddenly or with violence; as, to fling open a door. -- To fling out, to utter; to speak in an abrupt or harsh manner; as, to fling out hard words against another. -- To fling up, to relinquish; to abandon; as, to fling up a design.

To utter contemptious language, with an air of disdain; to jeer or gibe. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

To flutter; to rove on the wing. Dryden.

To flutter. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.

Unstable; fluttering. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

ire; to flounder; to throw one's self with a jerk or spasm, often as in displeasure. To flutter and flounce will do nothing but batter and bruise us. Barrow. With his broad fins and forky tail he laves The rising sirge, and flounces in the waves. Addison.

or asperties; as, a flowing period; flowing numbers; to sound smoothly to the ear; to be uttered easily. Virgil is sweet and flowingin his hexameters. Dryden.

The quality of being fluent; smoothness; readiness of utterance; volubility. The art of expressing with fluency and perspicuity. Macaulay.

Ready in the use of words; voluble; copious; having words at command; and uttering them with facility and smoothness; as, a fluent speaker; hence, flowing; voluble; smooth; -- said of language; as, fluent speech. With most fluent utterance. Denham. Fluent as the flight of a swallow is the sultan's letter. De Quincey.…

rosewood, and other hard woods. -- Flute pipe, an organ pipe having a sharp lip or wind-cutter which imparts vibrations to Knight.

To move with quick vibrations or undulations; as, a sail flutters in the wind; a fluttering fan.

charge, or by approach of a charged object. Such a property is called flyaway. Syn. -- fluttering. [WordNet 1.5]

A dish made of cheese, eggs, butter, etc., melted together.

ften implies also loss, detriment, or destruction, and sometimes it is intensive, meaning utterly, quite thoroughly, as in forbathe.

To utter a prohibition; to prevent; to hinder. "I did not or forbid." Milton.

Utterly drunk; very drunk. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ls bent to gaffs or set on stays in the midship line of the vessel. See Schooner, Sloop, Cutter.